Hi, I was digging a bit into 3rd party licenses for the Hunspell issue and came across Category B: Reciprocal Licenses in http://apache.org/legal/3party.html and noted that Hunspell is tri-licensed also under MPL 1.1 that would be permissive as long as the code is distributed only in binary form and the NOTICE file labels its reciprocity, if I understood correctly.
Currently OOo needs Hunspell in source code form only because very few patches are applied to be able to build it on Solaris, Windows and MingW, and one patch against a stack smasher. Am I right in assuming that if Hunspell adapted the upstream version such that these patches were superfluous, then AOOo would be able to build against a system Hunspell or on systems where Hunspell is not available or for binary distributions a build could include a binary of the library if the proper NOTICE entry is provided? To me this sounds like a solution to the problem. Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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